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In Bulgaria, nodding you head means "no", and shaking your head means "yes".

I think i might write a sitcom about some brits who go there on holiday, and all the hilarious japes and scrapes they get into due to the inevitable confusion that would result from interacting with nodding and shaking bulgarians.

Chairman Mao wanting to increase the amount of grain exports in order to build up an arsenal of weapons in order to become a superpower, decided that sparrows were the common enemy. This was because they ate the grain.

He therefore introduced a programme to destroy sparrows. This was implemented by getting the entire population to wave brooms and spades at them so they couldn't land. This made the sparrows so tired that they just dropped into people's hands and were murdered.

However, though the programme was successful in its original aim, China's ecosystem was thus ruined. It brought about an increase in many other pests and diseases.

Mao subsequently had to beg the Soviets to send China 200,000 sparrows.

Hemorrhagic smallpox had a mortality rate of around 95%. What were the effects of this disease? Well unlike with ordinary Smallpox the skin does not blister, but remains smooth. Instead, bleeding occurs under the skin, making the skin look charred and black. A patients eyes also hemorrhage, making the whites of the eyes turn deep red (and, if the victim lives long enough, black).